commonwealth games.

hi i was just sitting here thinking that these commonwealth games are not much more than the home nation,s competing against each other and are giving the athletes the impression they are world class .i mean no america in athletics .no america /russia in gymnastics .sorry but i think its not been great .and i am scottish .and we should not be having a rebel song masking as a national anthem .great song at new year but not on when english competetor standing beside them .

Nothing in papers about them. I looked this morning in attempt to see how england doing. Asked patients about them today and no one watching including man who watches sport whilst recovering from cancer. Us it on normal TV . Hard to follow london 2012 I think....

i like the flower of scotland at new year just not at the games .while the gymnastics have been alright to watch we really have only been competing amonst other britians exept a few other,s .and no i did not realise about god save the queen .maybe we should have scot,s wa hae .

Yes yabu unless you are a world class athlete yourself....It's a great games and I have enjoyed watching it. Great for those sportsmen and women who are bloody brilliant but not necessarily Olympic class.

God save the queen is a racist song soI refuse to have that as my anthem. Flower of Scotland is not a 'rebel song' it's a story. The English army decided in a quiet stealth attack so removed their boots, they stood on thistles (flower of Scotland) and the cries of pain from stepping barefoot on the thorns woke up the sleeping scots who defended themselves. It's about Scotland overcoming adversity. Why do England not have a national anthem? They have to use the British one.

But they are world class. You could say the same about any sport's Continental championships (European Championships, African Nations etc.)We don't have to wait for Russia/USA to come out with with their ball.

The Commonwealth games have been shown on the BBC although I've not seen them. I have heard bits about them on GMB in the mornings, England are at the top of the leader board for medals or they were this morning.

Kenyan and Jamaican runners dominate at all running events, including the Olympics. They are at the Commonwealth Games, ditto Australian swimmers. Plenty of Olympic standard athletes across all events. I think the Games have been fabulous for Glasgow, Scotland and Britain. Isn't it fantastic to showcase another part of Britain to the world?

These are world class athletes, even if other world class athletes are absent. Take Lewis Something, for example: silver medal in the Olympics (that world class enough for you?), but bronze medal in the Commonweatlh Games.

If Scotland is competing as a separate country to England, then GSTQ is inappropriate for either (ditto for Wales and NI, of course).

But TBH I do not get why or how the GB is participating as 4 different countries. Scotland is not devolved. The Scottish athletes hold British passports. If I was from one of the other Commonwealth countries I think I would see this as cheating: a way of allowing Great Britain to field more athletes and have a greater chance of winning more medals than the other countris.